Roomba pool! – Poomba?
First ever human vs autonomous / hacked pool playing Roomba at the Gawker/Lifehacker party at South by Southwest – the human controls the Roomba and tries to get the pool balls in before the programmed robot. Link.
Robotics
Making a robot can be an incredibly rewarding experience. It’s the perfect combination of creativity, engineering and problem solving. However, if you’re just getting started in robotics, it can also be overwhelming. To make things easier for those who are just starting out, we’ve put together some tips and tricks to help makers bring robots to life! From the basics of assembling your robot to software implementation, these pointers will give you everything you need to get started on your robotic adventure!
Parasitic Humanoid
This robot hitches a ride on people to get around – “The Parasitic Humanoid (PH) is a wearable robot for modeling nonverbal human behavior. This anthropomorphic robot senses the behavior of the wearer and has the internal models to learn the process of human sensory motor integration continuously, thereafter it begins to predict the next […]
HOW TO – iPaq controlled Roomba
Michael’s iPaq controlled Roomba how-to “Add an iPaq to your Roomba, take over the world! (or, well, maybe just your house). Part I in a series documenting my Roomba platform/swarm project.” – Link.
Robots In The ICU
From our pals at Robot Magazine – “Robots today play an important role in hospitals. Dr. Michael Black, a pediatrician who specializes in cardiac surgery, uses the RP-6 telepresence robot to visit a greater number of patients in a working day than was previously possible, and the quality of his care has been enhanced as […]
Videos from Roomba fights!
Chris shot some great videos from our underground Roomba brawl at Etech – some of the videos are from the cameras we mounted during the actual throw down – Link.
Autotelematic spider bots (photos)
John writes – “Images of the opening of Ken Rinaldo & Matt Howard’s Autotelematic Spider Bots show at Sunderland Museum & Winter Garden on Tuesday 7th March, 2006. The structure of the bots is amazing and equally impressive is the $50,000 of donated rapid-manufactured parts that it took to make them. The Autotelematic Spider Bots […]
ETech 2006: Roomble!! Roomba Fight at MAKE Fest
I’ll post a lot more on this later, but for now check out some photos and video of the first ever Roomba brawl! – Link.
